A mortification of the movie industry, and the British.

Rating: 1/10 (29 June 2003)

This movie is a total disappointment. I feel utterly indignant and cheated as a movie-goer and a consumer of the movie ticket. I also find myself a complete idiot to have even considered seeing this movie in the first place. Not only was this movie a humiliation of the viewers' intelligence, but it was also a complete failure, either as a scary movie, or a zombie movie. Basically, it's a movie that you want it to end, but it just doesn't and keep going nowhere.
First of all, the movie never explains clearly why it starts off the way it is (why's the protagonist, Jim, lying alone on a hospital bed. As well, the beginning is a complete drag as it's almost a fifteen-minute running around in a city in England that are already evacuated.
Secondly, very much part of the movie is unnesessary. I'm not going to elaborate it as I don't want to give the plot away. And most of the 'jokes' are so pathetic that the audience would laugh at, but simply because there's nothing else in the movie that the viewers could appreciate and worth laughing.
Thirdly, if you're looking forward to seeing a scary zombie movie, I'm sorry. The episodic and predictable zombie popping out of nowhere can only drive you crazy.
Furthermore, the movie could've redeemed itself when it comes to the part when the survivors meet the soldiers if it dwells on a little bit more on the intrinsic evilness of human and makes it the movie's theme. But instead, this part is shown so ambiguous and hasty that Jim comes off as a reckless maniac and a psycho. Hence, the movie ends up going nowhere and having no theme at all.
This movie simply doesn't make an iota of sense (if most part of England was infected, why isn't there any foreign assistance?). The title 28-days have nothing to do with the plot but simply just a haphazard number of days that the story goes along. The scenes are gross and crude but not SCARY. They're only meant to gross the audience out. The British ended up being a despicable copycat of the American resident evil by producing a sub-standard version of a zombie movie. In conclusion, why can't the British make something better out of their sophistication? I thought this is part of their tradition, but maybe I'm mistaken.